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Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions

Roth, Alvin E. - 2010

hired by large law firms and for gastroenterology fellows, and the market for post-season college football bowls. Together …

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Institutions, Technology, and Trade

Keller, Wolfgang - 2008

We study the importance of technology and institutions in determining the size of markets in five different countries and fifteen different German states. The setting of 19th century Europe presents a unique opportunity to address this issue, since it witnessed fundamental change in both...

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Do Institutions Cause Growth?

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2004

We revisit the debate over whether political institutions cause economic growth, or whether, alternatively, growth and human capital accumulation lead to institutional improvement. We find that most indicators of institutional quality used to establish the proposition that institutions cause...

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Individual Rights and Collective Agents : The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets

Weil, David - 2003

Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...

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Can Market and Voting Institutions Generate Optimal Intergenerational Risk Sharing?

Rangel, Antonio - 1999

theory, could be corrected by government intervention. However, as long as government policy is determined by voting …

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The Macroeconomics of Specificity

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 1996

Specific quasi-rents build up in a wide variety of economic relationships, and are exposed to opportunism unless fully protected by contract. The recognition that such contracts are often incomplete has yielded major insights into the organization of microeconomic exchange. Rent appropriation,...

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Institutions for Monetary Stability

Romer, Christina D. - 1996

This paper demonstrates that failures in monetary policy arise not just from dynamic inconsistency, but more importantly, from imperfect understanding of the economy and the effects of policy. Using recent and historic episodes from the United States and abroad, we show that limited knowledge on...

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Precedent and Legal Argument in U.S. Trade Policy : Do They Matter To The Political Economy of the Lumber Dispute?

Kalt, Joseph P. - 1994

precedents - - of CVD law influences the success or failure of the contending parties. Two alternative theories of political … economy are tested. Capture Theory de-emphasizes the role of institutional settings of the kind at work here: The outcomes of … before the Department of Commerce, this study finds more support for Capture Theory than for the New Institutionalism. An …

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The Long-Run Behavior of Velocity : The Institutional Approach Revisited

Bordo, Michael D. - 1989

In this paper we provide evidence using annual data for the period 1880 to 1986 that institutional variables are significant determinants of velocity in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden and Norway. This evidence supplements our earlier findings (Bordo and Jonung, Cambridge...

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Labor Market Institutions, Constraints, and Performance

Freeman, Richard B. - 1988

This study examines the changes in labor market institutions and outcomes across (ECD countries in the past two decades and relates indicators of the institutions to outcomes. It has four findings. First, there has been an increased divergence in labor market institutions, with unionisation...

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